After being out and about most of the day, I started to wonder something about public restrooms. Most parts of modern architecture and design are prefab. If you go to a Target in Rhode Island it's going to be the same as one in Kansas. A Subway in California is going to be exactly the same as one you'd find in Texas. But this modular design does not seem to work in the area of public restrooms. In public places like malls and convenience stores each bathroom seems as if it was the first draft of a never before attempted space.
Some usual problems: locks don't line up on the stall doors, stall doors leave huge spaces when closed that make you feel the door in inconsequential, toilet paper holders are so close to the floor as to make them almost unusable, toilet paper holders are so far away that they are almost unreachable, the toilet is so close to the floor you feel like you are sitting on the floor, the sides of the stall are so high you feel self-conscious, or possibly the door comes so close to the toilet you can't actual get into the stall.
So curious.
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Don't forget that one sink (which is inevitably the one you go to first) that doesn't have a)hot water, b)is out of soap and/or c)doesn't work at all. My biggest irritation of public restrooms is when they have the door handle on the INSIDE of the restroom....and no paper towels to use to open it with.
Oh, so true. Those things are awful too!
Some of the best public bathrooms are in Ikea, don't you think?
This is quite thought provoking! :)
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